And Using Orwell’s Ratio! — I try not to take sides with the Israel/Palestine conflict. The roots are deep, long, and intertwined. Taking one side or the other means ignoring more than a few of these roots. And when we ignore root causes, a good solution will not be found. But as I have been…

The Russians were made this way — Last spring, I started writing an article about the Russian psyche. This article got quite long. So I divided it into four parts, which turned into four separate Medium articles. Here are the four articles: What the Russians can Teach Us Their weakness could become our strengthmedium.com What if You were Born in Russia? You would know better, right?medium.com The National Narrative How to propel society forward — or backwardmedium.com

Understanding the Medium Algorithms & Medium Readers — If I were Pavlov’s dog running the Medium maze trying to figure out what to do to get food, I would probably starve. Too often, the stimulus-and-reward correlation is not working here. Because I am often writing about an alternative democracy that nobody wants, I have been relegated to bottom…

Storage Energy for the AC Grid — Wind turbines of the early 1980s operated at only one speed: the speed that would generate electricity to match the grid’s AC frequency of 60 Hz. This speed was controlled by automatically mechanically adjusting the pitch of the propellers. This meant that whether the wind blew at 10 km/hr or…

Overpaid, Indeed! — To be fair to the CEO social class, their occupations cannot be filled by people from the street. Most CEOs require a higher education to prepare them for this career. In their junior years, most CEOs have spent many 70+ hours a week to ensure their projects actually work out…

To understand the “enemy” — Let’s vilify the petroleum industry! It’s fun and so easy! Let’s first mention the vast profits this industry earns. Millions and millions! Millions of millions! Then let’s show photos of ruptured pipelines and oil wells on fire. What great visuals to show how dangerous and careless the industry really is…

The rich get a raw deal, right? — A Canadian entrepreneur is moving to London, England. It seems income taxes in Canada are too high. Britain is attracting this wealthy economic class with an almost zero tax rate. Let’s start this essay with a picture of taxes paid by all sorts of citizens. Here are the 2016 marginal…

Creative Accounting in Energy Economics — The failure of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has prompted the German government to accelerate plans to decommission all of its nuclear power plants by 2022. …

How to set a fair wage — Recently the federal government announced it would return about $20B in funding to Canada’s health care system. Most of this is likely to go to increasing the wages of the various professionals in the health care system. Doctors in New Brunswick want more; paramedics in Calgary want more; everyone in…